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- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 3 hours ago:
On a spectrum of visible light, yellow has a wavelength perfectly between red and green. Therefore, combining red and green, the average wavelength is the same as the wavelength of yellow.
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- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 3 hours ago:
Of course, because we have infinite RAM during the RAM crisis.
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 14 hours ago:
It is the difference between additive mixing and subtractive mixing. When you mix colors on a screen with RGB, you add light. When you mix pigments on a physical medium, you subtract the amount of light reflected (because each paint absorbs most light except the colors it reflects, which are what you see).
As a side note, when mixing in the subtractive color system, your primary colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. That’s why a printer takes CMYK, for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. In case you were wondering, ‘K’ here is black.
